Norman, thank you for posting this lovely farewell. You can feel the emotions of the musicians seeping through the hall. Chung must be an exceptional musical director and human being to be loved like this.

Nice observation Marg. I would say this is proportional to the ratios in Korean music schools: racially homogeneous and over half of them girls. Now only think: what would vpo look like if it was proportional to their schools? Surely the best of the Viennese Hochschule crop is not almost exclusively white males.

You mean to tell me that some son-of-a-gun was video taping during the concert? And at the climactic moment of THAT piece, no less. “Thanks a lot for ruining it, pal, ” says everyone seated next to that jerk.

Just as there are Asian players in the finest western orchestras, so there are caucasian players in Asia’s finest orchestras – although few in Japan. I read somewhere that about 20% of players in the NY Phil are of Asian or Asian-American descent.

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